Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 323
having no roof behind them but employed as or-naments—filled with openwork tracery similar in char-acter to that in the arched heads of the windows. Suchgables were especially elegant in design in the Flam-boyant churches of France (Figure 3.59). Balustrades. These were at first composed of small… … Fig. 308. Flamboyant French Balustrade; Chateau of Josselyn. 296 GOTHIC ORNAMENT: STRUCTURAL circles, triangles and quadrilaterals with closed or opencusps predominating. Such balustrades are used at thelower edges of roofs as well as for balconies, tower-para-pets and (rarely) stairways (Fig. 307,…
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